The Battle of the Labyrinth Characters: Full List & Analysis

Who drives the story

Main characters

Percy Jackson

The fourteen-year-old son of Poseidon and the narrator, dragged into the Labyrinth on Annabeth's quest. He survives an eruption, an island of lost love, and a war, and ends the book holding a hellhound, a sand dollar, and a terrible plan.

Appears in:: Part 1: Cheerleaders, Scorpions, and a Door in the Ground; Part 2: Two Faces, a Hundred Hands, and a Demon Ranch; Part 3: Calypso's Island, a Coffin, and the Boy Who Is Gone; Part 4: Pan's Last Breath and the Battle of the Camp
Themes:: Growing up means the choices get worse; Monsters are made by grief; Family shows up in strange forms

Annabeth Chase

The fourteen-year-old daughter of Athena who leads the quest into the maze to find Daedalus. She kisses Percy in a volcano, learns her childhood hero Luke is gone forever, and inherits Daedalus's laptop of unfinished genius.

Appears in:: Part 1: Cheerleaders, Scorpions, and a Door in the Ground; Part 2: Two Faces, a Hundred Hands, and a Demon Ranch; Part 3: Calypso's Island, a Coffin, and the Boy Who Is Gone; Part 4: Pan's Last Breath and the Battle of the Camp
Themes:: Growing up means the choices get worse; Cleverness is both the weapon and the wound

Grover Underwood

A satyr and Percy's best friend, racing a council deadline to find the god Pan or lose his searcher's license. He finds Pan only to watch him die, then inherits the battle cry Panic and scatters the Titan army with it.

Appears in:: Part 1: Cheerleaders, Scorpions, and a Door in the Ground; Part 2: Two Faces, a Hundred Hands, and a Demon Ranch; Part 4: Pan's Last Breath and the Battle of the Camp
Themes:: The wild is dying unless someone carries it

Tyson

Percy's cyclops half-brother, who works in the forges under the sea and joins the quest. He idolizes and inspires Briares, the Hundred-Handed One, to escape, only to learn his hero is ruled by fear.

Appears in:: Part 1: Cheerleaders, Scorpions, and a Door in the Ground; Part 2: Two Faces, a Hundred Hands, and a Demon Ranch; Part 4: Pan's Last Breath and the Battle of the Camp
Themes:: Family shows up in strange forms

Rachel Elizabeth Dare

A mortal with clear sight who can see through the Mist, first met swinging a blue plastic hairbrush at a monster. Daughter of a wealthy land developer, she becomes the only guide who can navigate the Labyrinth.

Appears in:: Part 1: Cheerleaders, Scorpions, and a Door in the Ground; Part 3: Calypso's Island, a Coffin, and the Boy Who Is Gone

Nico di Angelo

An eleven-year-old son of Hades, grieving his sister Bianca and manipulated by the ghost of King Minos into trying to trade a soul for hers. He turns on Minos, helps Daedalus die, and ends the book with a plan that requires a deal with his father.

Appears in:: Part 1: Cheerleaders, Scorpions, and a Door in the Ground; Part 2: Two Faces, a Hundred Hands, and a Demon Ranch; Part 3: Calypso's Island, a Coffin, and the Boy Who Is Gone; Part 4: Pan's Last Breath and the Battle of the Camp
Themes:: Monsters are made by grief; Cleverness is both the weapon and the wound; Family shows up in strange forms

Luke Castellan

The twenty-two-year-old son of Hermes and traitor to the Olympians, who takes Ariadne's string and opens the camp to invasion. Kronos fully possesses his body, and by the end Luke Castellan is gone.

Appears in:: Part 1: Cheerleaders, Scorpions, and a Door in the Ground; Part 3: Calypso's Island, a Coffin, and the Boy Who Is Gone; Part 4: Pan's Last Breath and the Battle of the Camp
Themes:: Monsters are made by grief; Cleverness is both the weapon and the wound

Daedalus / Quintus

The Labyrinth's creator and a son of Athena, cheating death through five automaton bodies and hiding at camp as sword instructor Quintus. He gave Luke the string, then dies helping the camp, leaving Percy his hellhound and Annabeth his laptop.

Appears in:: Part 1: Cheerleaders, Scorpions, and a Door in the Ground; Part 2: Two Faces, a Hundred Hands, and a Demon Ranch; Part 3: Calypso's Island, a Coffin, and the Boy Who Is Gone; Part 4: Pan's Last Breath and the Battle of the Camp
Themes:: Growing up means the choices get worse; Monsters are made by grief; Cleverness is both the weapon and the wound

Briares

The Hundred-Handed One, imprisoned by the monster Kampê and freed by Tyson. Too frightened to fight, he shrinks away, until he returns with Daedalus to defend Camp Half-Blood.

Appears in:: Part 2: Two Faces, a Hundred Hands, and a Demon Ranch; Part 4: Pan's Last Breath and the Battle of the Camp

How they are connected

Key relationships

Percy Jackson Annabeth Chase
The fourteen-year-old son of Poseidon and the narrator, dragged into the Labyrinth on Annabeth's quest.
Annabeth Chase Daedalus / Quintus
The fourteen-year-old daughter of Athena who leads the quest into the maze to find Daedalus.
Annabeth Chase Luke Castellan
She kisses Percy in a volcano, learns her childhood hero Luke is gone forever, and inherits Daedalus's laptop of unfinished genius.
Grover Underwood Percy Jackson
A satyr and Percy's best friend, racing a council deadline to find the god Pan or lose his searcher's license.
Tyson Percy Jackson
Percy's cyclops half-brother, who works in the forges under the sea and joins the quest.
Tyson Briares
He idolizes and inspires Briares, the Hundred-Handed One, to escape, only to learn his hero is ruled by fear.
Nico di Angelo Daedalus / Quintus
He turns on Minos, helps Daedalus die, and ends the book with a plan that requires a deal with his father.
Daedalus / Quintus Percy Jackson
He gave Luke the string, then dies helping the camp, leaving Percy his hellhound and Annabeth his laptop.
Daedalus / Quintus Luke Castellan
He gave Luke the string, then dies helping the camp, leaving Percy his hellhound and Annabeth his laptop.
Briares Daedalus / Quintus
Too frightened to fight, he shrinks away, until he returns with Daedalus to defend Camp Half-Blood.

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The wild is dying unless someone carries it · Growing up means the choices get worse · Monsters are made by grief · Cleverness is both the weapon and the wound

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